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Role Of The Dice
03:48
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Panning gold on the Oregon Trail
Round the table to the Holy Grail
This is the stuff of fairy tales
Like black leather jackets and dim lit bars
Alien worlds and distant stars
They promised jetpacks and flying cars
But was it all just a roll of the dice
For the experience?
Let’s talk about the meaning of life …
Or should I save that one for later?
Fireworks on the Fourth of July
Gas station coffee and apple pie
A silhouette against a painted sky
Well if this is it then I really can’t complain
No there ain’t no fortune and there ain’t no fame
Maybe I’ll find ’em on the next campaign
Was it all just a roll of the dice
For the experience?
Tied up in this role for the night
Ooh what an experience
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Masterpiece
04:37
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Look out my window there’s a great big world
I’m gonna stay inside
For the bloodshed of conquistadors
For the mountains and the sky
For the pornographic sunset
To the spinning fans of night
Let’s make it right
This masterpiece
Write about now
Write about now
I don’t care about the future
And I’m done with the past
I’m gonna make it last
Look at the ocean to a distant land
Just on the other side
Oh and all across the universe
That flickers through the night
To the unanswerable question
For the unfathomable sight
Let’s get it right
This masterpiece
Write about now
Write about now
An imaginary future
And a glorified past
I’m gonna make a splash
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The Masked Singer
04:02
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Welcome to the future
Farewell to the past
Glimpse it in the crystal ball
There just behind the glass
In the hour of judgement
In the lonesome shadow cast
The singer wears a mask
Hello to tomorrow
Goodnight to today
It was a long, long time ago
In a place far, far away
For the poets of tomorrow
And the masters of the past
The singer wears a mask
Before imagined galleries
Before the simulcast
The singer wears a mask
Welcome to the future
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Losing my voice
Losing my face
Losing my mind
Here they come to take her place
Here they come to take what’s mine
(Knock knock knock knock on the door)
They don’t need me anymore
But I still remember how it was before
On top of the world
And just seventeen
Each step inline each note in tune
Ain’t it good to be queen?
Then I’m out on my own
An insatiable greed
Number one on the charts
With the spotlight on me
Victim to the fate
Of a software update
She looks just like me
My flawless simile
Hardwired for success
In a mini dress
While I’m just flesh and blood
Guess that’s it and I’m done
Watch the glory as it fades
I’m washed up and I’m replaced
As they take it all away
Have mercy on me
Have mercy on me
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Pseudoscience Fiction
05:21
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A gentle mist is fallen
On the city at night
The shadow dancing with the neon light
And suddenly I’m in pseudoscience fiction
As a swarm of locusts
Usher in the new disease
My fifteen minutes of celebrity
And suddenly I’m in pseudoscience fiction
A red sun smudged
Upon a fleeting sky
Some kind of vision flashed before my eye
And suddenly I’m in pseudoscience fiction
In the smoky mirror
In a bathroom stall
A desperate warning scratched upon the wall
And suddenly I’m in pseudoscience fiction
Just behind the masquerade
Where the eagles fly
Another year has come to pass on by
And suddenly I’m in pseudoscience fiction
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Cozumel
03:44
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The cool Pacific Ocean breeze
A scorchin’ southern sun
They’re serving margaritas
I’ve got a fever of a hundred and one
I should have been in paradise
Now I’m trapped here in this hell
Dying like a gringo on a beach in Cozumel
Exiled in this country
An outlaw from afar
A pest to the bartender
Working at the swim-up bar
My breathing slow and labored
As a moonlit tide does swell
Dying like a gringo on a beach in Cozumel
My hair is styled in cornrows
My arms henna tattooed
The resort has been surrounded
And they won’t let no one through
Feed my body to the fishes
Dress my corpse in puka shells
Dying like a gringo on a beach in Cozumel
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Fear Factor
05:31
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Sometimes I stare in space
Sometimes I stare in the glass at the lines on my face
As time renders before me and is left behind
Red wine hydroxychloroquine
Where did it all go wrong?
When did we end up here?
If you’re trying to add it up
Factor in the fear
The fear factor
Fake news opposing views
Discipline and punish you
The promise of mirage
As leopards feast on my visage
Living the denouement
An ending drawing near
Of all the puzzling pieces
Factor in the fear
The fear factor
Inside of this viridian room
Soaked in blood and beer
Careful calculations babe
Factor in the fear
The fear factor
There are worlds beyond our own
Tomorrowlands where cars have flown
Somewhere out in that great unknown
Somewhere out there beyond the stars
Past Venus, Jupiter and Mars
And neon nights and dim lit bars
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8. |
Cancel Your Plans
03:57
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Cancel your plans
Let’s stay in tonight
Encore?
Ain’t nothing else to do anyway
Cancel your plans
We’ll watch a movie
Qu’est-ce qu’on écoute?
Maybe science fiction
Watch the ceiling fan as it makes its rounds
Days go by and suns go down
Look outside each day is new
What’s the point, the point of view
Ooh and ride off into the sunset baby
Draw the curtains, put the lights down low
There ain’t nowhere to go and nothing to do
Just me and you
Count the hours and count the ways
From Boogie Nights to Groundhog Days
This might be the hardest part
Or maybe this is just the start
Ooh and ride off into the sunset baby
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Kristian North Montreal, Québec
Kristian North eviscerates the very notion of restraint with a maximalist sci-fi epic grounded in the sounds of ‘70s soul, funk, and disco, with dizzying detours into the wildly disparate realms of rock opera, show tunes, and Hawaiian-tinged country, culminating in an assemblage that defies categorization. ... more
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